• Invention

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  • The engine was made of aluminum to be light so the plane could carry it.15
  • One motor is next to the man in the cokpit and 2 propellers in the back.72
  • The final airplane had two wooden wings.30
  • The first airplane they made went 390 feet in 17 seconds!30
  • The wings were supported by wooden poles.30
  • The brothers made another plane twice as big.30
  • each flight made Wilburs life closer to an end.30
  • Dictionary on airplane: a machine with wings and an engine that flies threw the air.30
  • the wright brothers tested there planes by using it like a kite.30
  • it gets you places faster.30
  • It was turned by a stick that was wooden.30
  • The air plane is one of the worlds best inventions.30
  • original airplane was air powered.30
  • The air plane had curved wings to help it fly.72
  • They were inspired by there kite.93
  • Flight two, kill devil hills, 1902, it worked.15
  • First flight, kitty hawk north Carolina, December 17, 1903, did not work.10
  • Moves, yaw-right to left, roll- side to side, pitch- up and down.15
  • Very good with parts.94
  • Bey plane.84
  • Wings had a slight curve.48
  • Pilot would be on the lower wing.48
  • First flight lasted 12 seconds and went 10 feet in the air.48
  • Made of wood and cloth.48
  • A moveble rudder helped with steering.48
  • It is a douple decker plane.94
  • Wilbur almost became the fist person to fly if the plane did not crash.35



Inventor

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  • Chalie talor made the engine for the plane.15
  • Wilbur was born on April 16,1871.22
  • Orville was born on August 19, 1872.22
  • Orville got typhoid from contaminated water.30
  • they lived in a cabin Orville dropped out of school to do mechanical work.30
  • the Wright brothers spent three months just talking about how to design it.30
  • Orville & Wilbor invented the first airplane.30
  • Wilbor stayed home instead of school because of a hockey accident that made him lose his confedence.30
  • they used to work at a bike shop.30
  • They solved the problems they had be trying solutions on a kite.28
  • They started by flying there airplane in strong winds.28
  • Never got more then a high school education.94
  • Orville death was January 30,1948.kidskonnect
  • Wilbur death August 30,1871.kidskonnect
  • Orville Wight, Wilbur Wight .10
  • by the time they flew the first plane they just wanted to prove it can be don.94
  • loved to fix machines.94
  • the wright brothers grew up in Dayton, Ohio. wiki
  • the wright brothers first became serious about flying in 1896. 93
  • both of the wright brothers never got married.93
  • the wright brothers dad inspired orville



Place in History

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  • They knew that their plane could have military uses so they wrote to the Army their invention.67
  • The Army wasn't interested in the plane at first but later they became interested and signed a contract with the wright brothers.67
  • All of the successful airplanes since then have incorporated basic design elements of 1903 wright flyer.Interneth
  • It efected people by them not having to walk a thousand miles.94
  • it a imact on the world because people can fly.15
  • the need of the plane was less driving.15
  • On December 17,1903,at kitty Hawk North Carolina,the wright flyer became the first powered,havier-than-air machine to achieve controlled,sustained flight with a pilot aboard- internet.
  • after they made it the plane can be used in war.wikianswers
  • we can now travle faster